Absalum (Absalom) Mercer, Private
2nd Company A. 36th Regiment - Artillery.
Enlisted in Brunswick County May 5, 1864 for the war.
Present or accounted for through August 1864.
Captured at Fort Fisher January 15, 1865 and confined at Elmira, New York until
paroled February 1865. Died on the route to be exchanged.
Source: North Carolina Troops: Volume 1, page 192